Posted on 07/08/2024 2:45:36 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Videos emerge online, showing a targeted attack by a Kh-101 missile on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv Ukrainian military expert Oleksandr Kovalenko has analyzed Russian propaganda messages after the terrorist attack on the largest children’s hospital of Ukraine.
At first, the Russian invaders claimed their strike on the Okhmadyt children's hospital in Kyiv was due to an alleged military meeting taking place there.
“So they openly admit that the attack on the children's clinic was targeted and justify it with a “meeting” claim… Seriously?
Let me recall that when two weeks ago, Kharkiv was attacked with glide bombs, Russian media platforms openly stated that the hospital was actually their target... Meanwhile, hospitals are protected by the Geneva Convention, which states that such facilities and their personnel operating in war zones shall be protected,” Kovalenko pointed out.
He adds that the Russians are, in fact, openly stating they are deliberately attacking civilian targets protected by the Geneva Convention.
Later in the day, the Russian propagandists, seeing the impact of their crime, turned on the other classic narrative, claiming the missile was shot down by Ukrainian air defense so it hit the hospital.
Ukrainians took to social media to publish the footage, which confirms that there was no shoot-down.
“The missile just plunges directly onto the children's hospital building. A targeted attack by a Kh-101 missile on a children's hospital,” Kovalenko wrote on Telegram.
In the evening, Russian propagandists decided to play experts, claiming that the children's hospital was hit by a Ukrainian Patriot PAC-3 surface-to-air missile!
And this despite the fact that a video of the strike is widely circulated, while a number of Russian specialized platforms across social media openly stated that the facility had been hit by a Russian Kh-101.
“Just look closely at the missile seen in the video, especially pay attention to its tail unit and the R95-300 turbojet engine located there. Now, let’s compare this with the Patriot PAC-3, NASAMS AIM-120A, and Kh-101/555 missiles.
Here's a question for experts: what type of missiles is totally similar to what we see there? Especially the tail part with the turbojet engine,” Kovalenko concluded.
Soviet Russia never signed the pre-ww2 geneva convention.
all combatants that target innocent children are criminal.
Right below this article is one on Hamas.
FR seems united in condemning Hamas-they’re the aggressor and as terrorists deserve to get their butts kicked.
Yet on R-UK threads, it’s like the Hatfields and McCoys.
Can someone explain why the same folks who are united on Hamas are fractured over here?
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False flag, 100%. I wouldn’t put it past Zelenskyy to order a hit on this site to generate more sympathy for Ukraine especially in the West.
Russia has never evolved from their Mongol Horde roots.
The equivalent of Biden blaming Trump for his poor debate performance...
Ruzzia bombed a children’s hospital, pure and simple. They targeted it because that’s how good their weapons are... Is that not the case, or is it that they can’t aim worth sh*t!... Either way it’s on them and nobody else.
I have looked carefully at the video and researched the KH101.
The KH101 is a cruise missile with about 1700 pounds of explosives aboard. That explosion in the vid is not a 1700 pound explosion. It is a tiny fraction of that.
Strange that videos were so quickly released when filming attacks is illegal in Ukraine, monitored by the SBU and punished when tracked down
The identity of the missile type is in dispute. Any very sharp clear stills are almost certainly a photoshop.
But as several experts have noted: if a building has windows blown out, walls still standing, peppered with shrapnel, and no big smoking hole where it used to stand….it wasn’t hit by a targeted hypersonic. But by an AD missile.
Btw the Russians already went back already and hit other military targets in the same city area. With an air raid notice of incoming, in advance, why were civilians nearby not moved into bunkers?
3 possibilities: 1 targeted attack, 2 Russian missile went off course, 3 Ukrainian counter-fire missile fell on the hospital.
A few basic observations:
1. Russia gains nothing from an attack on a children's hospital and the resulting casualties - only the opposite as the resulting NATO propaganda machine hypes it up the wazoo. It makes absolutely no military sense to shoot yourself in the foot in such a manner. If one says it was to intimidate or demoralize Ukraine, I would point out that this only makes sense as part of a sustained strategy, not an occasional strike or one-off. So when this happens 100X in a week then we can talk about that idea, but otherwise it's not reality.
2. Military Strategy Channel over on Youtube identified 3 potential targets near the hospital - an industrial complex 1300 meters to the north, a govern aviation ministry building just down the block from the hospital, and an aviation college building a kilometer or two to the south. So it's possibly an off-course missile or one damaged by counter-fire could have caused the hospital hit.
3. A number of times NATO/Ukrainians have screamed about supposed "attacks on civilians" (or on Poland in one incident) from Russian missile strikes, only to have it turn out to be from falling Ukrainian missiles fired in failed counter-fire. If I had to guess, this would be my first choice just based on the prior track record.
I suppose a 4th option would be a deliberate false flag by NATO elements, but I won't go there...
Neo-con Zeeper false flag ?
These Ukrainians make Baghdad Bob look honest.
These cruise missiles leave a huge crater. Whatever this was didn’t.
Can someone explain why the same folks who are united on Hamas are fractured over here?
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In a nutshell, because: (1) we are not the good guys in the Ukraine war; and (2) Russia and Hamas are not the same. Hamas has always been an enemy of Chistians and Jews, and an ally of leftists who also seek their destruction; whereas the Obama/Biden regime has wrongfully made post-communist Russia our enemy — by coups, false flagging, sanctions, and theft of assets.
In a nutshell-
despite hating war, despising the immense debt and corruption while not caring about Ukraine in the slightest
some of us support President Trump.
He said Ukraine’s survival is important to us.
Oddly though, other folks hate war, do not like obscene debt but care a lot about Russia and Putin.
It’s ridiculous nonsense.
Hamas-Russia Flashback:
Israel summons Russian ambassador to protest at Moscow’s hosting of Hamas
Israel summoned the Russian ambassador on Sunday to lodge a protest at Moscow’s hosting last week of a delegation from Hamas, the Palestinian militant group whose Oct. 7 attack on Israel killed at least 1,400 people and led to the war in Gaza.
“False flag, 100%. I wouldn’t put it past Zelenskyy to order a hit on this site to generate more sympathy for Ukraine especially in the West.”
Don’t know if Zelensky actually bombed his own civilians, but considering how many civilians the Ukrainians targeted in Donbass before and during this war, it certainly is possible.
But one thing for sure, if Ukraine wasn’t putting their air defense in the middle of their large cities, Russia wouldn’t be forced to take out those units...in the middle of Ukrainian large cities. Perhaps the Neocons should suggest alternate locations. Just Kidding!!!! The Neocons could less about Ukrainian deaths or they wouldn’t have started this war, nor DEMANDED that the war go on for years when they quickly realized that Ukraine never stood a chance.
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